Times Goes For the Slow-Play With Its Big Paterson Story

Last night, the paper finally put up the ace it was presumably holding all along—a Paterson bombshell suggesting that the governor may have been complicit in trying to cover up an assault by his aide and driver. (The paper even suckered him into defending the aide, David Johnson, after they wrote the first, relatively innocuous piece last week.) Surely, The Times has now played its Paterson hand. Right?

Everything else pales this morning—including the weather, which is currently dumping a wet, white blanket that could be a foot thick. Good curling conditions! Apparently, New Yorkers are flocking to that most curious of winter sports. And, for all the irony involved in talking about a sport that primarily centers on sweeping, it could actually determine who walks away with the most golds.